The words Jesus utters in today’s gospel ultimately lead to his death, for they were words which contradicted the religious sensibilities of the day. We will recall that for a Jewish individual contemporaneous to Jesus, to call the Almighty your “dad” (Abba), was a capital crime. Jewish people were instructed to never pronounce God’s name due to unworthiness and out of respect, so that the expression “Hallelujah” which we adopted from the Hebrew language which means, “Praised be God” (Yahweh) is actually an abbreviated form of what would otherwise be read as “Hallelujah-weh” (pronuounced, alle-loo-yah-way).  Just as the words "God" and "Lord" are written by some Judaic observants even today as "G-d" and "L-rd". A noted scholar and researcher, Rabbi Yehuda Shurpin explains this as follows;